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To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de>,
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On 11/27/13, 8:03 PM, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
>   Hello,
>
> ever since I took a FreeBSD machine into production, acting as any kind
> of file server, I have to work arround the problem, that write access to
> a directory implies unlinking (deleting) directory contents.
not sure I fully understand what you mean by that..
Do you mean write access implies delete access? yes..

This can be modified with the nounlink flag.

(man 2 chflags)